When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Illusionist, magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, originally Erik Weisz aka The Handcuff King dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 52 in Grace Hospital Room #401, Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Eyewitnesses to an incident at Houdini's dressing room in the Princess Theatre in Montreal gave rise to speculation that Houdini's death was caused by McGill University student Joselyn Gordon Whitehead who delivered a surprise attack of multiple blows to Houdini's abdomen.

(-)90 years ago

Sunday 31st of October 1926

Propaganda of the Deed anarchist Anteo Zamboni is lynched by nearby Fascist squadristi after attempting to assassinate Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce at the age of 15 in Via dell'Indipendenza, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

The man who first detained Zamboni and identified him as the would-be assassin was cavalry officer Carlo Alberto Pasolini, father of film director Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, United States.

(+)145 years ago

Monday 30th of October 1871

Poet and philosopher Paul Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry is born in Sète, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

(+)131 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1885

Modernist poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, United States.

(-)106 years ago He Disappeared with Humanity

Sunday 30th of October 1910

Founder of the Red Cross Henri Jean Dunant dies of unknown causes at the age of 18 in Heiden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.

Dunant's final words were "Where has humanity gone?"

(-)85 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1931

Cop killer James E. Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

(+)84 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1932

Film director Louis Marie Malle is born in Thumeries, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

(+)79 years ago

Saturday 30th of October 1937

Film director Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouche is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

(x)78 years ago He Created Panic

Sunday 30th of October 1938

23-year-old Actor and film director Orson George Welles broadcasts his radio play "War of the Worlds" in CBS studio, 485 Madison Avenue, 20th floor, New York City, New York, United States.

Welles' broadcast was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel 'The War of the Worlds' (1898).

(-)75 years ago

Thursday 30th of October 1941

Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

(-)50 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1966

Cheri Jo Josephine Bates is stabbed to death by unidentified serial killer Zodiac in Riverside City College, Riverside, California, United States.

There were similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates's death but no real proof she was killed by Zodiac.

(+)50 years ago

Sunday 30th of October 1966

Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh is born in Az-Zarqā, Muħāfazat az-Zarqā, Jordan.

(-)48 years ago He Choked on Something

Wednesday 30th of October 1968

Actor Ramon Novarro, originally José Ramón Gil Samaniego aka Latin Lover is murdered by 22-year-old Paul and 17-year-old Tom Ferguson at the age of 69 in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, California, United States.

Novarro had hired the Ferguson brothers from an agency to come to his home for sex but the two young men believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarro's house. Novarro died as a result of asphyxiation - having choked to death on his own blood after being beaten. Some say Novarro had in fact been suffocated with a lead dildo given to him 45 years earlier by Rudolph Valentino.

(x)46 years ago

Friday 30th of October 1970

27-year-old Singer-songwriter and poet Jim James Douglas Morrison aka The Lizard King aka Mr. Mojo Risin' known from The Doors is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and fined $500 for indecent exposure during a concert in Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, United States.

(-)41 years ago

Thursday 30th of October 1975

Wilma McCann is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Prince Philip Playing Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Escape artist Joseph Burrus aka Amazing Joe is crushed by a load of concrete in a 'buried alive' magician's trick at the age of 32 in Blackbeard's Family Fun Center, 4055 N Chestnut Diagonal, Fresno, California, United States.

As trick-and-treaters watched in shock rescuers frantically dug Burrus out but were unable to reach him in time.

Occult teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff dies due to injuries suffered in a car crash in 1948 at the age of 83 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

(-)59 years ago

Tuesday 29th of October 1957

Luxury call girl Rosemarie Rosalie Marie Auguste Nitribitt is strangled and beaten to death by persons unknown at the age of 24 in Stiftstraße 36, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

Several prominent citizens were exposed as Nitribitt's personal acquaintances. When it became clear that the police would not be able to find the murderer it was insinuated in the media that high-ranking personalities were trying to thwart any attempts at solving the crime.

(x)53 years ago

Tuesday 29th of October 1963

15-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer attempts to commit suicide by opening a vein with a pen in the City Jail in Santa Cruz, California, United States.

Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey, originally Howard Stanton Levey dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 67 in St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States.

LaVey was taken to St. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, because it was the closest available. For reasons open to speculation the time and date of his death was incorrectly (by two days) listed as the morning of Halloween on his death certificate.

11 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 29th of October 2005

Gardenworks on Art Farm, since we had no heavy equipment on hand some back-to-basics techniques were necessary to move a couple of nasty boulders in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.